Eye-exercising device



Qct. 25, 1927. L Fox EYE EXERCISING DEVICE Filed May 27, 1926 INVEN 0R. 6

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Patented a.. 25, ,1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- IVAN FOX, OF MEDIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR T0 ANNA E. FOX, OF MEDIA,

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Application filed May 27, 1926. Serial No. 111,935.

Persons frequently have trouble with their eyes .due to some defective muscular condition. It may be that all of the muscles of the eyes for some reason or other have become and the positions of the eyes in their respective sockets. In order to correct such deficiencies of 16 muscular development it frequently is necessary that persons use or manipulate their eyes in a way to exercise the muscles thereof or in a way to exercise particular muscles 1 which may require special exercises to effect 20 proper development of the muscles thereof and to effect correction of the deficiencies therein.

Heretofore the means employed for efl'ecting such exercises have consisted of lenses so made as to require the person using the same to put forth considerable muscular energy to overcome the effect of the lenses upon the eyes,-the employment of which furnishes the exercise necessary to develop the particular muscles desired to be developed by the lens or lenses.

The providing of such lenses requires the.

expenditure of a considerable amount of money, making it diflicult in many cases for persons of limited means to follow the directions of a physician to obtain such lenses and use the same' in exercising the muscles of the eyes.

The general object of my invention is to 40 provide a novel mechanical device which is simple'in construction and which may be employed for exercising the muscles of the eyes.

1 It also is anobject of the invention toprovide a device of novel construction including means which may be adjusted. from one position to another in order to vary or'chan e the exercises to which the eye muscles may be subjected,

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of novel construction having means whereby the muscles of the eyes may be exercised'in diiferent planes, which planes may be vertical, horizontal, or along any plane or line at any an 1c in between-said vertical and horizontal-p anes.

. row slots 10 arranged in 90 angular relation To these and other ends my invention comprehends the-construction and arrangement of parts as hereinafter described in detail, particularly pointed out in, the claims and as illustrated in the drawing accompanying and forming a part of this specification and in which Y F 1 is a view in front elevation;

F1g. 2 is a view in vertical sectional elevation taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a view in front elevation of the upper port on of the device with a member of said upper portion readjusted and supported in a difierent position from that in which it is supported in Fig. 1;and

Fig. 4 is a view in vertical sectional elevation taken on the line 441 of Fig. 3.

Referrlng to the drawing it will be noted that the device comprises a base 1' from WhlCll rises a post or standard 2 which may be tubular, as indicated. The upper'end of the said post or standard is provided with four slots 3 arranged in 90 an lar relation with respect-to each other. e said upper end may be slightly compressed so as to cause the same to fit more or less closely about the end portion 4.- of a stem 5 which projects thereinto. The stem 5 is provided with a narrow collar or flange-like memberfi which is secured thereon at a point a short distance from its outer end. The presence of the said collar or flange limits the extent of entry of the said stem into the upper end of the post or standard 2. The opposite or upper end of the stem 5' is provided with a tubular sleeve 8 which extends in right angular relation thereto, the said stem and sleeve const-itutmg a T-shaped member. The opposite ends of thesleeve 8 are providedwith narto each other. Mounted within the said vsleeve is a rod or bar 12. The opposite ends of the said sleeve 8 are'slightly compressed so as to cause them to frictionally .bear

against and hold the said rod 12 in positions i to which it may be adjusted in the said sleeve. To facilitate rotative adjustment of the rod 12 I have provided it with a narrow collar or flange-like member 13 adjacent one end thereof. At wthe opposite end I'have provided .a; hole 15 which extends transverselytherethrough through which a rod 16 extends. The said -'-rod 16. is adjustable lengthwiseand is provided at its op ,osite ends with. objective members 17 consist ng of I10 20 previously set forth, the rod 16 may the rod 16 ma s moved around t e axis of the rod or bar 12 balls or enlargements ofother form which may be of any color desired. The rod 16 maybe held in any position to which it may be adjusted by means of a binding screw 18 6 terminating at its outer end in a knurled disk 19 which constitutes an intermediate objective member and which may be of the same color, for instance black, as that of the "objective members 17, previously referred to.

The said binding screw is in engagement with a threaded opening located in the forward end of the rod or bar 12 and extending axially thereof.

It will be noted that the rod 12 upon which 15 the rod 16 is mounted is rotatable within the v into any angular position which may be desired. The stem 5 which constitutes in Figs. 1 and 2 a continuation of the post or standard 2 may also be rotated in either direction so as to adjust the rod or bar 12 and the rod .16 into difl'ernt angular positions with respect to the vertical axis of the post 2 and stem 5.

0 It will be apparent that when the rod or bar 12 is rotated in the sleeve 8 the rod 16 is moved in a vertical plane parallel to the axis of the post or standard 2. As. already indicated, the rod 16 may be adjusted length- 88 wise so as to vary its point of connection to the rod or bar 12 with respect to the opposite ends thereof.

The construction as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 is identical with that shown in Figs. 1 and Q 2, except that the end dportion 22 of the rod or bar 12 which exten beyond the knurled finger piece 13 is inserted into the upper end of the post or standard 2. When the end portion 22 is inserted into the upper end of 4.5 the post 2 the collar or flange-like member 13 operates as a stop to limit the extent to which the cross bar 12 may enter the openm ing in the upper end of the said post. In the construction as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, not only be revolved or in a vertical plane parallel to the axi of the standard 2, but it may also be revolved around the axis of thesaid standard. 2. The

latter movement maybe efiected by rotating the stem 5. In the arrangement as shownm Figs. 3 and 4 the .rod 16 may be adjusted lengthwise and may also be revolved or rotated'in aliorizontal plane about the axis of the post or standard 2. In the arrangement as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, three objects to .be looked at by-a person using the device for exercising the eyes are provided. These con- .sist of the objective members or enlargements 17 and the head 19 of the binding screw 18, whereas in the arrangement as the device, namely, the objective members 17.-

When aperson is using the device, he

.places it in front of his eyes and then, while holdin the head in fixed position, either moves %oth eyes or one eye alone slowly back and forth so as to observe alternately the objective members previously referred to. In doing this the muscles of the eyes are exercised and may be extended, thereby increasing the blood circulation which efi'ects a general toning u of the eye condition.

It will be seen t at by my invention I am enabled'to provide a mechanical device of simple construction which may be employed as a means for effecting exercise of the muscles of the eyes and that such-device is of a character such that it may be manufactured and sold at a minimum rice.

Having thus describe my invention, what .I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A device for exercisin the eyes comprising a support, a vertica rotatable stem mounted upon the upper end of said support, rotatable bar mounted upon said stem and extendin transversely thereof, and a rod supporte by said bar and occupying a vertical plane parallel to the axis of the said support.

2. A device for exercising the eyes comprising a supporting post, a stem rotatably mounted upon the upper end of said post, .the axes of the post and stem being in alinement, a bar rotatably mounted upon the up per end of said stem, and a rod mounted upon the said bar, which rod extends at ri ht angles to the said bar and is adjusta le lengthwise. I

8. A device for exercising the eyes com prising a vertical post, a stem rotatably mounted upon the upper end of said post and constituting an extension thereof, a bar rotatably mounted upon the upper end of said, stem and extending substantially at right angles thereto, and a rod mounted upon the said bar and extending substantially at right angles thereto, the said rod being-adjustable lengthwise and terminating at its opposite ends in objective members.

4. A device for exercising the eyes comprising a vertical post, a rod supported upon said post, said rod being provided with ob-v jective members located a substantial dis- .tance from each other, and means whereby said rod is adapted to be rotated in a plane parallel with the axis of said rod and which rod also is adapted to be revolved about the said axis.

5. A device for exercising the eyes comprising a vertical post, a rod mounted upon the upper end of said post, said rodbeing provided with objective members supported thereon a substantial each other, means whereby the saidrod is ada ted to be rotated in a plane arallel to the axis of said post and which ro also is adapted to be- 5 revolved around the axis of said p0st,and an objective member located intermediate the first named objective" members.

6. Afdevice for exercising the eyes comprisinga T-shaped member the cross bar-of *Which is rotatably mounted upon the upper end of the stem thereof which cross bar is provided at one end with a rod ad'justably I connected therewith and extending at right I tion of the said cross bar' an angles thereto, said rod having -objective 'devices-mounted thereon a substantial distance from each other and the op osite end porthe lowerend IVAN FOX. 

